Jarallah Uddin

Jarallah Uddin (5 November 1973-15 February 2015) was a commander of the Special Groups during the Iraqi Civil War.

Biography
Jarallah Uddin was born on 5 November 1973 in Basrah, Iraq to a Shi'ite Muslim family. In 1992 he became a member of the Shi'ite rebellion against Ba'athist Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and was involved in the resistance against the Iraqi Army in his home city of Basrah. After the start of the Iraq War in 2003, Jarallah Uddin became a member of the Shi'ite resistance to the new government of Iraq/MNFI/US Army and the Sunni insurgents/al-Qaeda in Iraq/al-Qaeda/Ansar al-Sunnah. Funded by Iran with $1,000,000 a month, Uddin was able to equip a unit known as the Jarallah Uddin Brigades, consisting of Shi'ite resistance fighters. His initial goal was to see the occupying US Army forces out of Iraq now that Saddam Hussein was deposed, although they still had to help the army fight the Sunni insurgents that were gaining followers. Nevertheless, the Americans withdrew in December 2011, ending the Iraq War. However, without the threat of a modernized professional army facing them, the Sunni insurgents grew exponentially, starting the Iraqi Civil War. Uddin turned his forces against the insurgents in addition to the government, and on 15 February 2015 he was killed in Baghdad in a suicide bombing by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).